Library Genesis

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Library Genesis (LibGen) is a digital library established on 11 March 2008.

"Library Genesis started in 2008 as an initiative to make ‘KOLXO3’, a famous digital offline collection of 59,000 scientific ebooks, that was distributed on 64 manually-copied DVD drives, available online [1]. An open-source indexing and search engine were developed. After that LibGen continued to grow by accepting uploads from users and absorbing collections of other shadow libraries, including Natahaus and Library.nu — but unlike these websites, LibGen did not emphasize community features and positioned itself as a kind of index or meta-library project instead. The project produced a number of mirrors and forks i.e. Z-Library and turned out to be the most resilient shadow library that still remains functional and updated with new literature," while some of its mirrors got shut down. [2]

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